Movie: Burial
of the "Maine" victims at Key West

The
U.S.S. Maine was destroyed by a mysterious explosion in the Havana Harbor,
February 15, 1898. "Remember the Maine" became a rallying
cry.

From
Edison films "war extra" catalog: Taken at Key West, Fla.,
March 27, 1898. First comes a detachment of sailors and marines in the
left foreground, while at the right is seen a crowd of small colored
boys, which precedes any public procession in the South. Then follow
the nine hearses, each coffin draped with THE FLAG. At the side of each
wagon walk the pall bearers, surviving comrades, their heads bowed in
attitudes of grief. Next come naval officers and marines, and lastly
a procession of carriages, followed by a large crowd on foot. The scene
is reproduced as it actually occurred. The figures are life size and
well in the foreground.